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birds and birthdays
2003-02-15 - 2:30 p.m.
Today is BF's birthday. We went on a short bird walk in Fontainebleau
State Park, but it was too windy to see much. Italicized birds
were seen roadside, not in the park itself.
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Brown Pelican
- Double-Crested Cormorant
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Blue-Winged Teal
- American Coot
- Common Moorhen
- Killdeer
- Laughing Gull
- Rock Dove
- Purple Martin
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American Crow
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Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
- American Robin
- Northern Mockingbird
- European Starling
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Loggerhead Shrike
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Yellow-Rumped Warbler, "Myrtle" type
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Red-Winged Blackbird
Afterward we cruised the delicious samples at the Mandeville Farmer's
Market, washed down with a powerful Hot Buttered Rum. Whoa. We took
home a bottle of a local wine and a blue cheese and walnut torte for
later.
BF has now put up my hand-tiled bird house. I'm hoping
for either Eastern Bluebirds or Carolina Wrens.
minutes later
I have just added Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker to the yard list.
I had a great close-up view of the bird, a juvenile, in the
neighbor's tree just outside my office window.
later
I did my Backyard
Bird Count from about 2:20 to 3:20 in the afternoon. It was a lot
more exciting than yesterday, but the Brown Thrasher was still MIA.
Cutest moment: A Tufted Titmouse took a bath in the bird bath, followed
by a curious White-Throated Sparrow. A watching Yellow-Rumped Warbler
approached the bath but ultimately didn't get in the water.
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Eurasian Collared Dove - 2
- Mourning Dove
- Red-Bellied Woodpecker (heard)
- Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
- Carolina Chickadee
- Tufted Titmouse -- 2
- Carolina Wren -- 2
- Northern Mockingbird
- Yellow-Rumped Warbler -- 2
- Northern Cardinal -- 2
- House Finch
- White-Throated Sparrow
- Red-Winged Blackbird
I'm convinced that I saw more individuals of these species than noted,
but the rules of the BBC are that you only count the highest number
of individuals that you can see in your field of view at one time.
I'm currently cooling off a birthday cake and marinating some steaks
for BF's birthday dinner. I might open the bottle of wine to get
our appetites up a bit early, tee hee.
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